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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This method of heating is used in various parts of the country, but mostly in Europe," Hawkes says. Chief Engineer Paul A. Parziale adds, "Harvard is the plant's biggest customer. We're a small co-generating plant. We produce electricity and steam, [and] the steam mostly goes to Harvard...

Author: By Lisa B. Keyfetz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Underground Story: Why Harvard Heating Runs Hot and Cold | 4/28/1998 | See Source »

...investments--from insurance policies to vacation loans--and break them into tiny packages of risk that could be put into a computer and auctioned on a global network. Different investors, looking to buy different kinds of returns for their money at different times, would step up and buy the various chunks of risk. Because these risk bundles were derived from the underlying investments, they were called derivatives. To explain this new world, Sanford embraced what has come to be known as the theory of particle finance. Just like quantum physics, which involves looking deep inside atoms to understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Bank Theory | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...next concern, Cowhig explains, is to make a Mach3 for women, many of whom are still using disposables. "Women aren't as evolved as shavers," he explains. Women's razors, Cowhig says, need even more research than men's, because they're used in the shower and in various ways, including in "some places they can't see in a mirror." Here his beam becomes a blush. It's hard to hide how you feel when you're one of the best-shaven men on the planet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Men Who Broke Mach3 | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...Patriot's Day? The real answers can be found only in a few places, and depend more on employee rather than client (i.e. student) needs. Director of Communications for the Office of Human Resources Merry D. Touborg explained, "Our holidays are generally based on federal holidays and there are various other holidays celebrated in Massachusetts that don't fall in that category." Touborg noted that "many businesses are open" on Patriot's Day and that by her estimate it is "observed sporadically" in the state...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Unpatriotic Harvard | 4/24/1998 | See Source »

...course, certain unique city games are also invented, various forms of tag and follow the leader, played in asphalt parking lots and alleys throughout the neighborhood. As Quincy R. Evans '00, a veteran of such childhood frolicking, recollects, everyone on his block has always understood how to have a good time...

Author: By Dafna V. Hochman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Urban Roots | 4/24/1998 | See Source »

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